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Last summer, I made a 42-page comic and released it pretty exclusively to central Canada, this being a modernized, gender-reversed version of Cinderella, except with the mob involved. I restored the whole thing this year (alternate scenes and extra panels), so the page count is up to 50.

It embarasses me a little to describe it, but...a young guy named Elliot Baker works as a cleaner at a pretty dingy motel while being berated by his manager, and in the meantime a mob boss hosts a party for his associates. After watching his manager and her nieces go, Elliot winds up meeting his Fairy Godfather, whom takes Elliot and his friends to the party, where he falls for the boss's model daughter. Then there's a double kidnapping stunt, and a flying car at one point. I have a lot of love for this book.

Hey, here's my official website!

This week, 100 copies are going to be printed and sold gradually, I almost want to promote it on this forum, but there's a lot of content that is potentially inappropriate for younger readers (the original cut was hard PG-13, albeit this "remastered" cut is a little lighter). Things I can name off right now are gun violence, a flamboyantly gay character (I don't know how right wing some of you may be), someone almost has his teeth pulled out, and reference to...non-kid friendly acts that are not shown on screen. Otherwise, I had a lot of fun working on the whole thing, and some of you might be interested. I'll be putting up a short preview of the series on my site after the books are printed.

After my midterm essays and projects, I'm going to put up pages for each of my other works. I have three or four things coming next year, and they're all-ages, so wait for those!

EDIT! Each book is $5, colour cover and B&W pages.

I had no idea you were doing this! I'm definitely interested!

So cool! When did you make it? How long did it take? ^______^;

@F-Man: Yay! I'll link to the preview pages in the next few days, and if you want to order, I'd be honoured! (I just want to tell everyone that I attempted to draw like Ralph Bakshi during the first five pages, so my art then is a little loose and strange on three of the characters. You can see at least three style phases over the course of the book.)

@Uran&Astro: I started on June 28th 2009 and ended in late August 2009, and that was with me drawing one page every day. There's two halves that I put out as individual issues, but they were printed from home and just...flimsy and homeade-looking. I went back about two months ago and did overhauls of some content that I thought was unsettling (there's a page on the site coming soon under the Works directory that goes into detail on this), and added pages to cover plot holes and add character development.

I learned that one should carefully plan a whole story from start to finish instead of making things up as you go, and to make sure no character completely disappears by the second act (which is actually what happened to poor Mina).

(Yeah, I started making a doujin a few weeks ago. It was a fail. ;_; Yes, I just barely noticed that, too. That a good story or manga or comic should be thought through. XD Maybe that is why my dozens of stories turned out horribly.

Anyways, you will be posting links of previews of your-comic or manga-? ^_____^

EDIT: sorry I am not making much sense. I feel really frustrated about my novel for NaNoWriMo...)

Wow, so you're actually publishing your own comics? That's very good, I'm happy for you.

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I'm gonna make my own comics too. I'm making a story where there's these two robot children. One is a girl named Pattie, who was made to resemble a wealthy scientist's 12 year old daughter, who got kidnapped. Heartbroken to find out she's a robot, she ran away from her family. The other robot child is a young boy named Tommy. His parents are robot scientists who couldn't have children, so they built Tommy to raise as a child of their own. Unfortunatly, his mom dies in a car crash, and he and his dad move to a new city, and he always gets picked on at school because he's a robot. Pattie and Tommy meet, and have sort of a love-hate relationship. It's a good story, and I'll post a thread about it when it's finished.

@Uran&Astro: I'll pick about three or four of the spoiler-free pages (I think I'm going with pages 6-9 now) and put them on the site's Preview section later today.

@Anime_Girl_14: The part of that about Tommy actually sounds like what happens to Robby in "Skipper The Robot Kid", something I made when I was thirteen. (Like, this couple of robot scientists made a pubescent robot boy, but Robby got beaten up by other researchers at his father's company, so he was deactivated and hidden in a tool shed while his family went into hiding.) I've since altered that part of the story, so it's totally fine if you keep yours.

You can now see pages six, seven, eight and nine! I let page six in as a test...if you hate it, Cinderelliot is not for you.

ONE CURSE WORD ONE CURSE WORD ONE CURSE WO-- *explodes*

However, my art improved some pages after that one. Anyways, I feel I should explain the presence of the Fairy Godfather, the single most popular character of the whole comic, whom attracted some rather scary fans when the comic first came out. I do love the crap out of him, however.